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ReviewChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology2020

Hijacking Translation Initiation for Synthetic Biology.

Jeffery M Tharp, Natalie Krahn, Umesh Varshney, Dieter Söll

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Review in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Tuning tRNAs for improved translation.Frontiers in genetics · 2024
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Ancestral archaea expanded the genetic code with pyrrolysine.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2022
    Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Biochemistry · 2021
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Single enzyme RT-PCR of full-length ribosomal RNA.Synthetic biology (Oxford, England) · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jeffery M TharpDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2362-3249
Natalie KrahnDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0696-433X
Umesh VarshneyDepartment of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
Dieter SöllDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3077-8986

Funding

Studies of Transfer RNAR35GM122560 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SOLL, DIETER · 2017 to 2022
$5.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genetic code expansion (GCE) has revolutionized the field of protein chemistry. Over the past several decades more than 150 different noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) have been co-translationally installed into proteins within various host organisms. The vast majority of these ncAAs have been incorporated between the start and stop codons within an open reading frame. This requires that the ncAA be able to form a peptide bond at the α-amine, limiting the types of molecules that can be genetically encoded. In contrast, the α-amine of the initiating amino acid is not required for peptide bond formation. Therefore, including the initiator position in GCE allows for co-translational insertion of more diverse molecules that are modified, or completely lacking an α-amine. This review explores various methods which have been used to initiate protein synthesis with diverse molecules both in vitro and in vivo.

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Protein BiosynthesisProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalAmino AcidsAnimalsGenetic CodeHumansOpen Reading FramesProtein EngineeringProteinsSynthetic BiologyAmino AcidsProteinschemical biologygenetic code expansionnoncanonical amino acidssynthetic biologytranslation initiation

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PMID32023356
PMCPMC7237318

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